Disaster declaration comes as 2 of the largest wildfires in state history are burning right now in the bay area. The l a new lightning complex fire has burned more than 325,000 acres in Napa Sonoma Solano. Lake and the s c you lightning complex has scorched more than. 339,000 acres across alameda contra costa santa clara, san joaquin stannis loss and yolo counties. These are now the second and 3rd largest wildfires in california history surpassed only by the mendocino complex fire which burned more than 450,000 acres. Back in 2018. And all the fires currently burning in the bay area, the l and you could lightning complex fire has been the deadliest and most destructive. It is claimed the lives of 5 people and 4 others were injured during the fire fight. So far 480 structures have been destroyed a 125 have been damage more than 30,000 are still threatened. One of the communities hardest hit by these fires is the Berryessa Highlands in napa county people there have suffered tremendous lo
Acres tonight we also know that President Trump has approved californias request for a president ial major disaster declaration. This afternoon governor gavin newsom tweeted his gratitude for the president s help writing that, although these are unprecedented times california is resilient. And well get through this. We have Team Coverage on these fires tonight kron fours noelle bellow gayle lot gayle ong and dan thorn on live with the latest on the fires and the damage and our chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow is in our Weather Center tracking the conditions, lets first go to know well with the very latest on the firefighting efforts in Sonoma County know well whats going on. And sorry just about 5 minutes ago, i watched as several fire trucks just came to zooming down this road, im on west side road in a Dry Creek Valley that is just west of healdsburg and most folks if you live on this road you were ordered to evacuate here west of highway one oh one and now as i mentioned several
For continuance. Do any members of the public wish to provide Public Comment on the items proposed for continuance . Thank you. Regarding 2 henry adams, we needed to kick it out a week to put last materials together. Youll see the cases from 2013. If theres any opportunity to get on the december 19 schedule, we would appreciate it. I just wanted to put a shutout for that. So thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . With that, Public Comment is closed. Motion to continue items 1a, 2 and 18a to the dates second. Thank you. On that motion to continue items as proposed. Commission fung is there any response to the request for the 19th versus for 2 henry adams . Jonas . Well, the only reason we chose january 9 is because december 19 is closed. We have a full calendar. Okay. Sorry. On that motion to continue items as proposed. [roll call vote] that motions passes in a minute unanimously. Your consent calendar. All matters are considered to be retune and may be
Lastly, on the unauthorized units, weve been a big champion of these. Theres an estimate of 20 to 50,000. If you knew how many you would have to remove them. They exist in the city but they are an important housing resource. Most are rent controlled. A lot of our most vulnerable renters live in these units. We have two objectives around this. One is retain as many units as we can, protect them from merger, from demolition and conversion. The other is protect tenants rights as best we can. We think we recommended both of those things. Every unit will have a broad path to legalization. So if you can feasibly legalize, you will be allowed under the planning code to legalize it. Thats the first thing. The other thing is by removing these loopholes, the areas that dont allow you to approve the merger under section 317, so thats the no fault evictions and the more than one unit, you then as a commissioner will have to approve every unit removal, every unit merger, et cetera. That gives you t
Commission. Discussion around the faux saws and this is going back to 2015. The discussion of the retention related to the Historic Properties and how it had been coming out in the city and the sort of product that had been arriving through this process. In 2016, further discussion of examples. In 2017 reviewing draft policy staff had begun to develop. What was interesting was the shift in thinking from this as preservation. There is conversation if these were preservation projects. At that point the commission directed staff to begin describing this as a Design Review process rather than preservation. This is complex within the Preservation Community. Early this year we presented a new take on this which was much more around Design Review. There was a joint Commission Hearing between planning and Historic Preservation to discuss how it might work and direct projects in the future. This came out of preservation conversation and into Design Review. That is when you saw it last. We then